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7.5 Drilling into Lesson-Level Performance

How to expand units to see module-level data, what Total Missed Questions and Average Completion Time tell you, and how to drill from there to individual lessons.

Written by Kerry Ao

The bottom section of the Classroom Performance tab is a structured breakdown of your course, module by module. This is where high-level metrics translate into specific instructional decisions.

The Layout

After the Classroom Snapshot and Improvement by Module chart, you'll see units listed in order:

1. Financial Responsibility            [▼] 2. Checking Accounts                   [▼] 3. Savings & Investing                 [▼] 4. Credit & Debt                       [▼] ...

Each unit appears as a collapsed row with an expand arrow. Click any unit to expand it.

Expanded Module View

When you expand a module (e.g., "1. Financial Responsibility"), you'll see:

Top-level module metrics:

  • Total Missed Questions — How many questions the class got wrong across all lessons in this module (e.g., "2 Total Missed Questions")

  • Average Completion Time (min) — How long the class spent on lessons in this unit on average (e.g., "8365 Average Completion Time")

Lessons within the module: A list of individual lessons, each clickable for deeper drill-down. For Financial Responsibility, you'd see:

  • Introduction to Financial Responsibility

  • Wants vs. Needs

  • Understanding Income and Expenses

  • Creating a Personal Budget

  • Smart Shopping and Spending

  • Analyzing Financial Information and Fraud

  • Demonstrating Financial Responsibility

  • (and so on)

What "Total Missed Questions" Tells You

This count aggregates every wrong answer across every student in your class for this unit. It's most useful as a relative comparison across units:

  • Unit 1: 2 missed questions = students are getting it

  • Unit 4: 47 missed questions = students are struggling

Don't read absolute numbers in isolation. A unit with more questions overall will naturally have more misses. Compare similarly-sized units and look for outliers.

What "Average Completion Time" Tells You

The total minutes spent on lessons within a unit, averaged across students:

  • Low time (under typical range) — Students are racing through, may not be engaging fully

  • Normal time — Students are working at expected pace

  • High time (well above typical range) — Students are struggling, getting distracted, or the content is genuinely hard

Compare completion time alongside missed questions for a fuller picture:

Pattern

Likely Meaning

High time + few misses

Students working hard and succeeding

High time + many misses

Students struggling despite effort — re-teach needed

Low time + few misses

Students cruising — could push harder

Low time + many misses

Students not engaging — address motivation

Drilling to Lesson Level

Click any individual lesson within an expanded unit to see lesson-specific data:

  • Per-student performance on that lesson

  • Specific questions students missed

  • Time spent on the lesson

  • Mastery status per student

This is the most granular view available in Classroom Performance. It tells you not just "Module 2 is hard" but "specifically, the Wants vs. Needs lesson is where students stumble."

Connecting Drill-Down to Action

A typical workflow when you spot a problem unit:

  1. Notice — Improvement by Module chart shows a dip at Unit 3

  2. Expand — Click Unit 3 in the Module-by-Module Breakdown

  3. Identify — Note that Total Missed Questions is unusually high

  4. Drill — Click the lesson within Unit 3 with the highest individual misses

  5. Diagnose — Look at which specific questions students got wrong

  6. Plan — Decide whether to re-teach the lesson, supplement with a Teaching Toolkit case study, or address misconceptions in class

  7. Re-assess — After re-teaching, monitor the next assessment to see if accuracy improves

When the Numbers Look Empty

Early in the semester, many units will show empty metrics or "—" placeholders. This is normal — students haven't reached those units yet. The breakdown becomes meaningful only after students have completed enough content in a unit to generate data.

Related articles:

  • 7.1 Classroom Performance Tab Explained

  • 7.4 Improvement by Module Chart

  • 8.4 Class Average vs. Individual Performance

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